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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 24. What is the Role of Diet in Yoga?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46366

Blurb:

Premodern yoga treats diet as of ritual, ethical and practical importance, but although most practitioners would have been lacto-vegetarian in more recent times, this is not universal. In modern times, the diet recommended to and by yoga practitioners has a similar range and diversity, but interestingly, the reasoning for these dietary practices has changed.

Chapter Contributors

  • Theodora Wildcroft (theodora.wildcroft@open.ac.uk - theowildcroft) 'The Open University'
  • Barbora Sojková (barbora.s.yoga@gmail.com - bsojkova) 'University of Oxford'